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Saint Nicholas Society 

II 

OF THE 

CITY OF NEW YORK 



PORTRAITS OF THE PRESIDENTS 
OF THE SOCIETY 



1835—1914 




ORGANIZED FEBRUARY 28, 1835 
INCORPORATED APRIL 17, 1841 



PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SOCIETY 

1914 



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EDITED BY 

FLORENCE E. YOUNGS 



ISAJt io i3i4 



OFFICERS, 1914 

President 

Charles Isham 

Vice-Presidents 

Vernon M. Davis William D. Murphy 

DeLancey Nicoll Alfred Wagstaff 

Treasurer 

Henry Cotheal Swords 

Secretary 

Clarence Storm 

Assistant Secretary 

Guy Van Amringe 

Chaplains 

Rev. Stephen Van Rensselaer Rev. Howard Duffield, D.D. 

Physicians 

Robert Fulton Weir, M.D. 
Francis LeRoy Satterlee, M.D. 

Consulting Physicians 

RoLFE Floyd, M.D. Theodorus Bailey, M.D. 



MANAGERS 

Austen H. Fox Thomas Ludlow Chrystie 

William Hull Wickham Frederic I. Lockman 

Herman LeRoy Edgar Henry L. Bogert 

Charles A. Schermerhorn Walter L. Suydam 

Charles H. Stout Samuel Riker, Jr. 

William Augustus Boyd Alphonso T. Clearwater 



STEWARDS 

Alfred Wagstaff, Jr. Philip Rhinelander 

Thomas Bloodgood Peck James M. Montgomery 

William L. De Bost John R. Delafield 



PRESIDENTS 



Baii.ey, Nathaniel P. 
Beekman, James W. 
Beekman, James William 
Benson, Egbert 
DeLancey, Edward F. 
Depew, Chauncey M. 
DePeyster, Frederic . 
DePeyster, Frederic J. 
DeWitt, George G. 
Field, Benjamin H. 
Fish, Hamilton 
Fish, Stuyvesant 
Foster, Frederic de Peyster 
Fox, Austen G. 
Hoffman, Ogden 
IsHAM, Charles 
Jay, William 
Jones, Samuel 
King, Edward 
King, John A. 
Lawrence, Abraham R. 
LocKMAN, John Thomas 
Macdonough, Augustus R. 
Manley, James R. 
McLean, James M. 
Mills, John C. 
Mount, Richard E., Jr. 
Norwood, Carlisle, Jr. 
Ogden, James DePeyster 
Remsen, Robert G. 
RooME, Charles 
Roosevelt, James J. 
SCHELL, Augustus 
ScHELL, Edward 
Schermerhorn, Charles A. 
Stanton, S. Franklin 
Stuyvesant, Peter G. 
SuYDAM, Walter Lispenard 
VanBuren, John 
Vanderbilt, Cornelius 
Vermilye, William M. 
Verplanck, Gulian C. 



Constitution 
Signatures of Members 
Bibliography 
Index 



PACE 
52 

34 
62 
10 
4S 
66 
22 
64 
76 
36 
24 
74 
72 
7S 
20 
88 
80 

14 
68 
16 
50 

84 
42 
12 
40 

53 
38 
56 
iS 
46 

32 
26 
30 
60 
82 
70 
6 
86 

23 

54 

44 

8 



90 

91 

92 
95 



\/|ANY years ago Charles A. Schermerhorn 
began collecting for the Saint Nicholas 
Society the portraits of its Presidents. Recently 
it became evident that if the undertaking was to 
be completed the work must be done before trace 
of the earlier Presidents was lost. 

Search was made in many directions, and it is 
surprising that all the portraits were obtained. 

The thanks of the Society are due to many 
members, to Mr. Kelby of the New York Historical 
Society, Mr. Hyde of the Herald, Mr. Bigelow 
of the Society Library, Mr. Egbert Benson, and 
to others who assisted the Committee. 

The sketches were written in haste, material 
for them was difficult to obtain, and readers are 
invited to send any further facts of interest to the 
office of the Society, 1328 Broadway, New York. 

Chari.es a. Schermerhorn, 
Carlisle Norwood, 
Walter L. Suydam, 

Committee. 




PETER G. STUYVESANT 



3^ntx (BtxRXti g)tuj>\)esant 

PRESIDENT 1835-36 

PORTRAIT from a miniature. He was born in 1778; died 
August 16, 1847. Had a large farm in the neighbor- 
hood of the Bowery and Eighth Street, and gave part of it to 
New York City for Stuyvesant Park. His residence, "Peters- 
field," was built before the Revolution, and was situated on his 
father's "Bouwerie"' farm. 

He was a founder of the New York Historical Society on 
November 20, 1804, and its President, 1836-1839; a Director 
of the Erie Railroad in 1832, this being the first trunk line to 
enter the city. He assisted in the endowment of the Chair 
of Ecclesiastical History in the General Theological Seminary, 
the only professorship for which even a partial endowment 
was raised between 1833 and 1837. 

He married first Susan Barclay, and second, Helen Sarah 
Rutherfurd, and being childless, devised most of his estate to 
Stuyvesant Rutherfurd, his great-grandnephew, on condition 
that he change his name to Rutherfurd Stuyvesant. 




GULIAN C. YERl'LANCK 



(Sultan Crommtlm l^erplanck 

PRESIDENT 1837 41, 1858-59 

PORTRAIT at New York Historical Society. Born August 
■*• 6, 1786, in Wall Street; he died at his home in 14th 
Street March 18. 1870. 

He entered Columbia College at the age of eleven, graduated 
in 1 80 1, and was admitted to the Bar in 1807. 

The only case he ever tried was his own, when he with 
several other students and graduates were tried before Mayor 
DeWitt Clinton for rioting because the I-"aculty would not 
allow a graduate to use political expressions in his address. 
This riot tijok place in Trinit\- Church. 

He published "The Bucktail Bards or The State Trium- 
virate," in 1819, a political satire. Member of the Legislature 
from 1819, for four years continuously; of Congress, 1825- 
1833; of the New York State Senate 1837-1841. Member 
of the Tontine Association, and for many 3'ears President of 
the Century Club. One of the hospitals on Ward's Island 
was named for him. He was a Sachem of Tammany, and 
helped lay the corner-stone of the Wigwam in 14th Street. 
He was buried from Trinity Church, of which he had been a 
Warden. His term as President of Saint Nicholas was the 
longest in the Society's history. 




EGBEET BENSON 



Cgliert 33tn6on 

PRESIDENT 1842-43 

r)ORTRAIT from an old photograpli in a family Bible. 
^ Bom September i, 1789; died February 25, 1866. He 
lived at 36 East 22nd Street, New York, and at New 
Utrecht, now Bensonhurst. 

Columbia College was his Alma JNIater, his class being that 
of 1807. 

He was a member of the Board of Aldermen 1835-41, 
1845, 1846; and its President, 1836-38. He was Acting 
Mayor for a short time, and was presented by his fellow-alder- 
men with a silver pitcher. 

]\Iaria Couwenhoven, wife of ]\Ir. Censon, was born at New 
Utrecht April 6, 1803, and died there June 22, 1867, in the 
same house in which she was born. 

Mr. Benson was buried in the graveyard at New Utrecht 
after a funeral service at the South Reformed Dutch Church, 
New York City, of which he had been an Elder for five years. 



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JAMES R. MAXLEY 



PRESIDENT 1844-45 

r)ORTRAIT by Daniel Hiintingtun now in the staff room 
*■ at Bellevue Hospital, copied by his grandson, James W. 
Embury, and from this copy the photograph was taken. A 
clue to these portraits was obtained from the Will of the sister 
of James R. Manley, and the only other likeness found is a 
silhouette by Edouart, which could not be obtained. 

Dr. JManle}' was a practising physician of New York and 
lived in 1841 at No. 19 White Street, which location he found 
so remote that he requested the use of a burse to visit the 
Hospital, then at City Hall Park. 

At the time Dr. INIanley was President of the Saint Nicholas 
Society he lived at No. 74 Second Avenue. He was President 
of the New York State Medical Society in 1826; Vice-Presi- 
dent New York Academy of iNIedicine, 1849; Consulting Phy- 
sician, Bellevue Hospital, from 1847 to 1851, when he died, 
aged seventy years. 



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SAMUEL JONES 



^amutl Jours 

PRESIDENT 1846-47 

O ORX [May 26, 1769; died at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., 
*~^ August 9, 1853. 

He obtained his legal education in the office of his father, 
"the father of the New York Bar," where De^^'itt Clinton was 
at the same time a law student. 

He held the office of Assemblyman, iSiJ-1814; Recorder of 
the City of New York, 1823; Chancellor, 1826-1828; Chief 
Justice of the Superior Court of the City of New York. 1828- 
1847; '^"fl Justice of the Supreme Court of the State, 1847- 
1849, ranking as the fourth judge in the family. 

He was one of the founders of the Union Club in 1836. 
He was also a founder of the General Theological Seminary. 

He married Catherine Schuyler, born 1793, died November 
20, 1829, daughter of Philip J. Schuyler and his first wife 
Sarah Rutsen, of Rhinebeck, N. Y. 

Although he had completed his eightieth year upon his re- 
tirement as Supreme Court Justice, he returned to the practice 
of his profession, and continued therein until two months 
before his death. 

Judge Jones and his wife were both interred in the Schuyler 
Cemetery at Rhinebeck, but were removed in 1893 to the 
Cemetery at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



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JOHN A. KING 



Joiju 9ll6op ^tns 

PRESIDENT 1848-49 

PORTRAIT from a print at New York Historical Society. 
Born January 3, 1788, died July 7, 1867. The IMinutes 
of a Stated Meeting of the Society of September 5, 1867, say: 
"the late Hon. John A. King departs this life, an ancient 
President of our Society, honored with many public offices of 
trust and importance." 

His career began as member of the Committee of a Public 
Dinner on Washington's Birthday, 181 5, to celebrate the 
Treaty of Peace. He was Member of Assembly for Queens 
County, 1819-21, 1832, 1840, and Governor in 1856. He was 
a founder of the Union Club in 1836, and its second Presi- 
dent; and was a Vice-President of a Mass Meeting held in 
Union Square April 20, 1861, on the outbreak of the War. 



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JAMES DE PEYSTER OGDEN 



f amcsi lie ^^cj^ster (Bc^^ni 

PRESIDENT 1850-51, 1856-57 

PORTRAIT obtained from the New York Herald. Born 
' August 26, 1790; died April 7, 1870. 

An eminent Merchant of old New York. He went into 
mercantile business in 1820, his store being at 24 Broad Street, 
near the corner of Garden Street, and he lived at the City 
. Hotel. While General Jackson was President of the United 
States, Mr. Ogden was American Consul at Liverpool. He 
was one of the most prominent and estimable members of the 
Chamber of Commerce and was also prominent in politics. 
He was a Vice-President at the dinner to Lord Ashburton at 
the Astor House, September i, 1842. During the Civil War 
he was an active Member of the Union Defense Committee. 
A trustee of the " Sailors' Snug Harbor," and ended a valu- 
able life at the age of nearly eighty years. 



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PRESIDENT 1852-53 

r)ORTRAIT from The Genealogy of the Hoffman Family. 
^ Born October 13, 1794: died May i, 1856. He gradu- 
ated with honors at Cohimbia in 181J. 

Joining the navy, he was taken prisoner witli Decatur, under 
whom, in 181 5, he served in the War on the Barbary States. 
He left the navy in 1816, and went to Orange County, N. Y., 
where his father owned a country seat, and began the study 
of law. He was District Attorney of Orange County in 1823, 
and in 1825 was elected by the Democrats to the Legislature. 
Later he removed to New York, and joined the Whigs because 
President Jackson had removed the deposits from the United 
States Bank. In 1828 he was elected to the Legislature, and 
was subsecjuently District Attorney of New York. 

He served in Congress in 1836 and 1838; was District 
Attorney for the LTnited States in Southern New York from 
1841-1845 ; and was afterwards Attorney General for the State 
of New York. 

He was one of the most consummate criminal lawyers 
America has ever produced, and has been called "the Erskine 
of the American Bar." 



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FREDERIC DE PEYSTER 



jFretjeric lie ^^ej^ster 

PRESIDENT 1854-55 

BORN in New York City, November ii, 1796, he died at 
Tivoli, N. Y., August 17, 1882. Graduated at Colvunbia 
College in 1816. During the War of 1812, he served as a 
volunteer with other students of the college in the erection of 
fortifications at "McGowan's Pass" for the defense of this 
City. In 18 19 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1820 he was 
appointed a Master in Chancery. He was appointed a Cap- 
tain in the 1 15th Regiment. In 1825 he was aide to Brigadier- 
General Fleming, and later became a member of the staff of 
Governor De Witt Clinton. During fifty-eight years he was 
a member of the New York Historical Society and its Presi- 
dent 1864-66, 1873-82; in 1827 when a rising young lawyer 
he applied to the legislators at Albany for a grant to the His- 
torical Society, and through his efforts five thousand dollars 
was voted. Governor Clinton said, in reference to the history 
of New York, "Do you not know, gentlemen, that the most 
important is the worst or least described part of the Union?" 




HAMILTON FISH 



JIamilton fi^i) 

PRESIDENT 1860-61 

A GRADUATE of C(jlmiil)ia in 1827 with tlie highest 
■' *• honors, he led a most reniarkaljle public life. 

He was Congressman, Lieutenant-Governor, Governor of 
New York, United States Senator and United States Secretary 
of State in 1869. He negotiated the Treaty with Great 
Britain arbitrating the .llabaiiia and Newfoundland fisheries 
claims, and settled the Vinjinius case with Spain. He was the 
first Cabinet Officer to athocate civil service. From 1861 to 
1865 he was chairman of the Union Defence Committee. 

He was President of the New York Historical Society, 
Trustee of the Lenox and Astor Libraries and of the Peabody 
Educational Fund. Besides being President of the Saint 
Nicholas Society, he was President cif the Union League 
Club. 



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JAMES J. ROOSEVELT 



James 3^acot)us H^oosetjelt 



PRESIDENT 1862, 1864 



F) ORX December 14, 1795; died April 5, 1875. Portrait 
■*-^ from a large print. In the quest for this portrait atten- 
tion was drawn to the signature of Judge Roosevelt as here 
reproduced from the book of the Society: 



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One member of the family states there were two James 
Roosevelts and that the middle initial was used to distinguish 
our subject from the other James; Mr. Fred Roosevelt, a son 
of Judge Roosevelt, declares that the middle name was Jacobus 
and that his mother so stated. The Genealogical Record of the 
Saint Nicholas Society has the name James John Roosevelt. 
There was a direct ancestor Johannes, born 1687. 

Judge Roosevelt was a Manager, \'ice-President and Presi- 
dent of Saint Nicholas. District Attorney of the United 
States for the southern District of New York, ^Member of 
Congress, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New 
York, "noted for his integrity united with great abilities." 



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JOIIX VAN BUREN 



f oi)n Wan a3uren 

PRESIDENT 1863 

PORTRAIT from The New York Herald. 

^ Son of President V^an Buren, he was known as "Prince 

John." 

He graduated from Yale in i8j8 and in 1830 was admitted 
to the Bar. In 1831 he was attache to the U. S. Legation to 
the Court of St. James, and Attorney-General of New York 
State in 1845. He was many-sided as were most of the 
Presidents of Saint Nicholas, being famous as lawyer, orator, 
politician and society leader. 

The minutes of the Stated Meeting of the Society held 
November 28, 1866, read: "Long a practitioner at the Bar, 
he was appointed Attorney-General of the State, the duties 
of which office he performed with signal ability and honor." 



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AUGUSTUS SCIIELL 



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PRESIDENT 1865-66 

R. SCHELL was born at Khiiiebeck, N. Y., August i, 
1812. He graduated with marked distinction from 
Union College in 1830, and was admitted to the Xew York 
Bar in October, 1832. In 1857 he was appointed by Presi- 
dent Buchanan Collector of the Port of New York. In 1867 
he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention of 
the State of New York, and Ijore a prominent part in its most 
important labors. In 1872 he was appointed by Governor 
Hofifman a member of the Commission to propose Amend- 
ments to the State Constitution. 

For thirty years he was a most efficient member of the 
Board of Trustees of the New York Institution for the Blind, 
and after 1866 its President. 

For nearly half a century Mr. Schell was one of the most 
active Members of the New York Historical Society, serving 
on its executive Committee from 1845 to 1872, and as Chair- 
man of the Committee for twenty years. He was President of 
that society in 1872, and again from January 3, 1883, until 
his death, March 27, 1884. 



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CHARLES EOOME 



CfjarlfS Broome 

PRESIDENT 1867 

T7LECTED to Saint Nicholas March 9, 1847, he became a 
^ Steward in 1859. 

Born in New York City, August 4, 181 2, he was in 1838 
a clerk in the office of the Manhattan Gas Light Company, 
rising to President of the Company in 1854, which position he 
held until 1884 when he was chosen President of the new 
organization, the Consolidated Gas Company. 

He was Captain of Company D in the famous Seventh Regi- 
ment, and assisted in forming the 37th New York Militia, was 
commissioned Colonel, May 29, 1862, when he served in the 
defence of Baltimore, and received the thanks of the Secretary 
of War. May 13, 1865, he was commissioned Brevet Briga- 
dier-General U. S. Volunteers, "for faithful and meritorious 
services." 

His ]\Iasonic life was an active one. and at his death on 
June 28, 1890, Grand Conimandery, Knights Templar, printed 
General Order No. 2 in his memory as "Past R. E. Grand 
Commander of the Grand Conimandery of the State of New 
York, and Past ]\I. E. Grand Master of the Grand Encamp- 
ment of the United States." 



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JAMES w. bei:kmax 



James William 33cclunan 

PRESIDENT 1868-69 

OORX November 22, 1815; died June 15, 1877. Married 
^-^ Abian Steele JMilledoler. 

A graduate of Columbia College in 1834, he studied law 
in the of^ce of the late John L. Mason. 

Mr. Beekman lived on a large landed estate on the East 
River, left to him by his uncle James for whom he was named. 
The house built in 1 763 was demolished, and the great carved 
wooden mantel and chimne}- breast, with tiled fireplace from 
the drawing room, were given to the New York Historical 
Society. This house had many historical associations. 

He was a strong supporter of the common school system 
and a member of the Board of Education, Trustee of Columbia 
College, \\'oinan's Hospital, the old New York Hospital. His 
death was caused by illness contracted in prosecution of duty 
as an officer of this Hospital. 

Interested in politics he was Assemblyman from the old 
Sixth District in 1848-49; State Senator from this City 1850- 
51, "A silver gray Whig." He carried through the Legislature 
the bill creating the Central Park. 

He was a founder and \'ice-President of the Union League 
Club; for many years a member of the Century and first 
President of the St. Nicholas Club. For thirty-nine years 
he was an active member of the New York Historical Society, 
and at the time of his death one of the Vice-Presidents. 
He was buried from the Dutch Reformed Church, of which 
he was an enthusiastic member. 



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BENJAMIN H. PI ELD 



Benjamin i|a?arti jfielti 

PRESIDENT 1870 

r)ORTRAIT from New York Historical Society, of wiiich 
*■ he was President 1885-86; its Treasurer for seventeen 
years, the erection of a fireproof building for the Historical 
Society was largely due to his efforts. 

Born at Yorktown, Westchester County, New York. Edu- 
cated at North Salem Academy. He was a merchant in New 
York City widely known for philanthropic work. Married 
Catharine \'an Cortlandt de Peyster, a daughter of Frederic 
de Peyster. 

A Life Member of the American Geographical Society, 
Director of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, Presi- 
dent of Home for Incurables, New York Free Circulating 
Library, Eye and Ear Infirmary, Field Home and I'^ield 
Farm and Land Company. A member of the Chamber of 
Commerce, Century Club and a Trustee, or Director of the 
Working Women's Protecti\e L'nion, Roosevelt Hospital, 
Greenwood Cemetery, American Museum of Natural History, 
Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and the Good Samaritan 
Dispensary. 

Vice-President of the Society Library and a Director of the 
New York Dispensary. He was influential in the erection of 
the monuments to Farragut in Madison Square and to Halleck 
in Central Park. 



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RICHARD E. MOUNT, JR. 



mtctorti eti\Dartis iHount, f r. 

PRESIDENT 1871-72 

/"^ RADUATE of Columbia College in 1834; entered the 
^—^ law office founded b)- James Alexander, the celebrated 
colonial lawyer. 

Mr. Mount was never happier than when poring over the 
old Latin poets. He was deeply interested in musical and 
dramatic affairs, contributed to papers on social and other 
topics. A lover of early Xew York history, he was a life mem- 
ber of the Historical Society, and Treasurer of the Society 
Library, and the only trustee of that institution to leave it a 
legacy. Director of many banks and n:ember of a number of 
clubs. 

Died INIarch 31, 1880, aged 66 years, at his residence in 
West 2 1st Street. 



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JAMES M. McLean 



Bfamcs ittonroe JHcilfan 

PRESIDENT 1873-74 

BORX in Xew York, Decemljer 8, 1818; died :\Iay 13, 
1890. 

He was Secretary and President of the Citizens Fire Insur- 
ance Company for almost forty years. 

President in i860 of the Xew York Board of Fire Under- 
writers, serving four years, he was a prominent factor in 
creating harmony among local fire insurance companies, and 
in establishing the present Fire Department. When the 
Xational Board of I'ire Underwriters was formed in 1866, 
his was tlie only name put forward for President and he was 
re-elected for a second term. 

Among the many positions of trust held by him are the 
following: President and Director of the Manhattan Life In- 
surance Company; an incorporator and original Director of 
the Manhattan Savings Bank; one of the first Board of Direc- 
tors of the Xational City Bank and \'ice-President of the 
Union Trust Company. 

President of the Board of Education four years; Trustee 
of the Xew York and Brooklyn Bridge ; President of the Insti- 
tution for the Blind. Alember of the Union, Saint Xicholas 
and [Manhattan Clubs. 



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AUGUSTUS R. MAfDOXOUGII 



PRESIDENT 1875-76 

OORX Xovember 20, 1820; died July 21, 1907. jNIarried 
*-^ Frances Brenton !\Ic\'ickar on June 10, 1846. 

He was the son of Commodore Thomas Macdonough, 
U. S. N., the hero of the battle of Lake Champlain. 

Educated at Utica, New York, Yale 1839. Admitted to the 
Bar. Practised law at St. Louis, JMo., from 1842 to 1848. 
Shortly before his wife's death he came to New York, where 
he engaged in active practice until 1873. Though a good 
lawyer his tastes led him also into the field of literature. Mas- 
ter of classical and modern languages, his literary acquaintance 
was extensi\-e. During his term as President of Saint Nich- 
olas, at the Paas Festival in 1876, he recei\'ed the commission- 
ers from Holland who came to attend the Centennial. His 
speech of welcome, written and delisered in the Holland lan- 
guage, is to be found in the minutes of the Society. 

During the Civil War the great Sanitary Commission I'air 
was held in L'nion Square to send supplies and comfort to our 
soldiers in the field. Mr. Macdonough was editor-in-chief 
of the newspaper called The Spirit of the Fair. He wrote 
upon Civil Service reform, and was Examiner for New York 
a short time, inaugurating the most needful adjunct to good 
government. He was Secretary of the meeting which formed 
the Association of the Bar. 

In 1873 he left the Bar and was Secretary to the Erie Rail- 
road Compan}-, remaining until No\-ember 14, 1895, when 
he retired; however, he continued in its service in an advisory 
capacity down to the time of his death. 



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PRESIDENT 1877-78 

r)ORTRAIT obtained from Louis Verniilye Davison. Mr. 
^ X'ermilye was born September 30, 1801 ; died June 18, 
1878. Married Hester Ann De Riemer. 

He was one of the founders of the Presbyterian Hospital. 

An incorporator of the Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Children in 1875, and served as a Director thereof 
for two years, retiring at the expiration of his term. He 
always remained a staunch friend of the Society. 

Pie was founder of the Ijanking house of Vermilye & Co. 

The minutes of a special meeting of the St. Nicholas 
Society, June 24, 1878, read : — "By the death of Air. Vermilye 
the City of New York has lost one of the most sagacious, 
prudent and honorajjle of her men of finance, whose names are 
held throughout the world the synonyms of integrity and 
ability." 



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EGBERT G. EEMSEN 



l^ohtxt #cor5c Ecmsen 

PRESIDENT 1879 

\/f R. REAISEN was active and well known in the social 
^ ' -^ life of New York; he lived first in Cherry Street, in 
Waverly I'lace, 19 East 22(1 Street, and later at 87 Fifth 
Avenue, and there died January 18, 1896. His widow (Mar- 
garet Delprat) moved to 3 East 80th Street, an illustra- 
tion of the march northward of the residence district in the 
life of one generation. 

Mr. Remsen graduated at I'rinceton, A.B. Class of 1842, 
A.M. in 1845; College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, 
M.D., in 1846. He was one of the three founders of the 
"Patriarchs," a series of subscription dances. 



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EDWAED F. DE LANCEY 



Ctitoarti Jfioj^ti Bfi.ancej> 

PRESIDENT 1880-1881 

OORX Octoljer 23, iSji, at jMamaroneck, N. Y. ; died 
*-^ April 7, 1905, at Ossining, N. Y. Educated at the Uni- 
versity of Penns3'lvania, Hobart College and the Harvard Law 
School. Admitted to the New York Bar in 1846. He held 
a high reputation as historian and genealogist; was President 
of the Westchester Historical Society, New York Genealogical 
and Biographical Society, Corresponding Secretary of the 
New York Historical Society and a member for fifty-four 
years. Edited Judge Jones' "History of New York in the 
Revolution." 

Many times a delegate from Zion Church, New York, to 
the Diocesan Convention, and he was Treasurer of that body 
from 1866 to 1 88 1, when he declined re-election. 

Trustee of the Fund for Aged and Infirm Clergymen and 
of Trinity School. 

Vice-President of the Huguenot Society, and member of 
the Society of Colonial Wars and the American Philosophical 
Society of Philadelphia. 



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ABRAHAM K. LAWHKNCE 



9H)raf)am 3^il\u Hatarence 

PRESIDENT 1882-83 

M ON. ABRAHAM RIKER LAWRENCE was born at 
* * loo East 14th Street in the City of New York, Septem- 
ber 19th, 1832. He is the son of Hon. John L. Lawrence 
(Comptroller of New York City, ist President of the Aqueduct 
Board, State Senator, Treasurer of Columbia College, Charge 
d'Affairs in Sweden, etc. ) and Sarah Augusta, daughter of 
General and United States Senator John Tangier Smith. He 
was educated at private schools, Ballston Spa Law School, 
in the offices of his father and Judge Jasper W. Gilbert. He 
was admitted to the Bar in 1853. 

He was Assistant Corporation Counsel from 1853 to 1856 
and 1857 to 1858, a nieniljer of the Constitutional Con\ention 
in 1867, Democratic Candidate for Mayor of New York 1872; 
elected Justice of the Supreme Court 1873, re-elected 1887, 
and served until December 31st, 1901, having been on the 
bench for twenty-eight years. He was President of the Saint 
Nicholas Society for two terms, 1882 and 1883. 

He is one of the founders of the Association of the Bar of 
the City of New York, of which he was Vice-President in 
1905 and 1906. He is a member of the Union, Century and 
Manhattan Clubs, the New York State Bar Association, 
Society of Colonial Wars, and the American Rifle Associa- 
tion. 

He is the author of "'Compilation of the Tax Laws of the 
State of New York, with notes of Cases," and since 191 1 
Official Referee of the Supreme Court. 

His wife is Eliza, only daughter of the late Dr. William 
Miner of this City. 



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NATHANIEL P. BAILEY 



PRESIDENT 1884 

r>ORN June 7, 1809; died October 12, 1891. In 1836 he 
'-^ married a daughter of Jacob Lorillard. 

Mr. Bailey was a noble and courteous character and prom- 
inent in commercial and social life. He was a Governor of 
the New York Hospital from 1858 until his death; Vestry- 
man of Trinity Cliurch ; an active member of the Union 
League Club during the Civil \\'ar; many years a member of 
the Century Association, and of institutions for the promotion 
of science, learning and practical benevolence. 



53 




COKNELI US V A X D KK H 1 LT 



Corntliusi "gTantierbilt 

PRESIDENT 1885-86 

OORN on Staten Island, N. Y., November 27, 1843; died 
'-^ September 12, 1899. In 1885 he entered the office of 
the New York and Harlem Railroad and successively held 
important positions in connection with the Vanderbilt system. 
Upon the death of his father he became the head of the house 
and controller of the \'anderbilt properties. 

He was a trustee of Columbia College, General Theological 
Seminary, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Aluseum 
of Natural History, St. Luke's Hospital and other institutions. 
He was noted for his interest in charitable work. Erected a 
building on Madison .\venue occupied by the Railroad branch 
of the Y. AI. C. .V. He also gave to Yale College a dormitory. 



55 




CARLISLE NORWOOD, JK. 



Carlisle jBtorVoooti, f r. 

PRESIDENT 1887 

/"^ ARLISLE NORWOOD, who was the junior of his name 
^-^ when elected President of the Society, became greatly 
interested in everything that related to Saint Nicholas and what 
it represented, by reason of the fact that when he was fourteen 

years of age his father, a Vice-I'resident of the Society, took 
him to one of the annual dinners then held at the old Saint 
Nicholas Hotel. Shortly after he became of age he was 
elected to membership and qualified as a life member. At that 
time there were but a very few young men in the Society, and 
that made the position of a young man somewhat isolated at 
the meetings and dinners. Mr. Norwood promptly proceeded 
to overcome this ilifticulty by inducing (juite a numerous party 
of his Knickerbocker friends to become memljers, and so great 
was the interest that they enthusiastically took in all the affairs 
of the Society, it was not long before the result was that the 
very much older men who had long predominated were retired 
from office and another generation, not the youngest, however, 
succeeded to their places. When Mr. Norwood became Presi- 
dent he was the youngest man who had then or since been 
elected to that office. He was elected to various offices for 
nineteen consecuti\'e years and has served on many committees, 
perhaps more notably on the Installation Committee, where he 
conducted his part in the ceremony generally much more to the 
delight of the Society than of the officer being installed. 



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JOIIX C. MILLS 



3o\)\\ Cruger jMls 

PRESIDENT 1888 

OHX CRUGER MILLS was one of the younger men 
in a coterie of those wlio at that time were the most 
active in all the affairs of the St. Nicholas Society. These 
gentlemen were Augustus Schell, James M. McLean, Edward 
Schell, Robert G. Remsen. Benjamin L. Swan and Carlisle 
Norwood (the senior). Li the days of those gentlemen the 
customs of the Society were more markedly of the old Knicker- 
bocker type than they are today. ]\Ir. Mills, who had literary 
tastes and was a widely read man, was at all times greatly 
interested in everything that related to the history of old New 
York, and such things secured his attention not only because 
they appealed to his imagination but since he thoroughly 
believed that the ancient customs were of such a character 
that they should be perpetuated. When he was Secretary of 
the Society he was without the assistance that is nowadays 
given to that official, and his duties brought him in personal 
contact with a very large number of the members, upon whom 
he strongly impressed himself by his unfailing ct)urtesy and a 
manner towards them which indicated that he sincerely thought 
that each one of them, because of his association in the Society, 
was entitled to his special consideration. 




EDWARD SCITRLL 



Ctituarti ^djfU 

PRESIDENT 1889 

OORX Xoveiiiber 5, 1819, at Rhinebeck, N. Y. ; died 
*-^ December 24, 1893. 

Began business as a junior clerk with Littlefield & Shaw, 
Irish hnen importers in New York, and at twenty-six years 
\\as a junior member of the firm of Lewis S. Fellows & Schell, 
New York. Seventeen years later he entered the banking 
business, principally engaged with the Manhattan Sa\ings 
Institution of which he was a trustee, treasurer and president 
for over thirty years. 

He was a Trustee Union Trust Company; Director National 
Citizens Bank; Manhattan Life Insurance Company; Citizens 
Fire Insurance Company ; Park Fire Insurance Company ; New 
York Society Library; Institution for the Blind; St. Luke's 
Hospital; \'estryman of the Church of the .\scension, New 
York, and \\'arden of Christ Church, Rye. Life member 
New York Historical Society and of the Century Association. 

A governor of the Manhattan Club. 



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JAMES WILLIAM liKRKMAN 



James William 93erlunan 

PRESIDENT 1890-91 

OORN N^ovember 4, 1847; "^I'ed August 7, 1908. Graduate 
*-^ of Columbia Law School, admitted to the Bar in 1871. 
Elected to Saint Nicholas November 29, 1869, he proved a 
valuable member and was made a Knight of the Order of 
Orange Nassau, by the Queen Regent of the Netherlands in 
recognition of his services to the Oiflcers of the Dutch Man- 
of-War Van Speijk, during the Columbian Naval Review of 
1893, when a dinner was given by Saint Nicholas to these 
officers. 

Mr. Beekman devoted much time to Charitable Institutions, 
was a trustee of the New York Hospital ; one of the Execu- 
tive Committee of the New York Historical Society and a 
member of many cIuIjs and patriotic societies. 



63 




FKEDEEIC J. DETEYSTEE 



jFrctitrirk Blames lie ^e jester 

PRESIDENT 1892-93 

OORN February 5, 1839; died May 11, 1905. Graduated 
^ from the College of the City of New York in i860 and 
Columbia Law School in 1862. 

He was notable for public work in educational, charitable, 
historical and other interests ; was a Trustee of the Holland 
Society; President of the Saint Nicholas Club; Governor of 
the Society of Colonial \\'ars in the State of New York; 
Governor-General of the Society of Colonial Wars; President 
of the Huguenot Society; President of the New York Dis- 
pensary; President of the Orphans Society; Chairman New 
York Society Library; President New York Infant Asylum; 
also a New York Trustee and Treasurer of the American 
School of classical studies at Athens, which has raised funds 
for exploration and restoration, aided deserving scholars to 
pursue Greek studies in the Hellenic capital, and enlisted the 
sympathies of the reading public in these things. 

Married Augusta McEvers Morris of Morrisania, by whom 
he had five children. 




CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW 



Cljauncci) iEitdjcU BcprVp 

PRESIDENT 1894-95 

r)OKTRAIT from a large print. Born at Peekskill, Xew 
York, on an estate purchased by his forefathers from 
the Indians over two hundred years ago. 

Graduated from Yale 1856, LL.D. 1887. Studied law in 
Peekskill with Hon. William Nelson, l-^lected to the New 
York State Legislature i86i-6j, and Secretary of State, N. Y., 
1863. Declined the post of ^Minister to Japan and other 
prominent offices. 

He was Attorney for the New York and Harlem Railroad, 
and when Commodore A'anderbilt in 1869 acquired control 
of the New York Central Railroad and consolidated it with 
the Hudson Ri\er Railroad, \It. Depew became a Director. 
In 1875 h^ ^^'as General Counsel of all the \'anderbilt roads; 
in 1 88 J he became 2nd A'ice-President and in 1885 President 
of the New York Central and Hudson Ri\-er Railroad. 

He has been President of the Union League Club; Yale 
Alumni; Sons of the American Revolution. At the anni- 
versary dinner of Saint Nicholas held December 6, 19 13, 
at Delmonico's, Mr. Depew delivered a speech which was 
received with cordial manifestations of delight. 



67 




EDWAED KING 



CtiVoarti ^ing 

PRESIDENT 1896-97 

OORN July 30, 1833, at the family country seat, High- 
*-^ wood, Weehawken, N. J. ; died November 18, 1908, 
at I University Place; funeral ser\ice at Grace Church. 
Graduate of Harvard University and President of the Har- 
vard Club of New York. He was President of the New 
York Stock Exchange, and in 1873 was made President 
of the Union Trust Company restoring that institution to 
great prosperity. Mr. King took no part in public life, yet 
was consulted by and gave assistance to the Secretaries of 
the United States 7>easury during times of financial difficulty. 
He was a member of the Century Association and of the 
University Club; Metropolitan Museum of Art; National 
Academy of Design; Treasurer and Trustee of the New 
York Public Library and Governor of the New York Hos- 
pital. Owned a country residence at Grymes Hill, Staten 
Lsland, N. Y. 



69 




S. FI;.\XK1.IX STANTON 



Utiles jFranlUin Stanton 

PRESIDENT 1898-99 

' I ''HE writer of this refers for genealogical information 
•* to the book* of the Society and for the official record 
of Mr. Stanton to the St. Nicholas year books. Here he 
will be spoken of with reference to his general character- 
istics and his social life among members of the St. Nicholas 
Society as such. From the time of his election to member- 
ship until the last year of his life Mr. Stanton took an active 
and affectionate interest in everything that related to the 
welfare of the Society and those things which it represents. 
By nature he was unusually social and warm hearted. He 
preser\-ed all his friendships and never made an enemy. His 
loyalty to his friends under all circumstances was one of 
his predominant characteristics, and he enjoyed among the 
members of the Society an unusual popularity and will be 
long and pleasantly remembered by every one of us whoever 
came in contact with him. 

* Genealogical Record, printed 1905. 
Elected March i, 1875. 
Horn April 2, 1846. 
Died June 15, 1907. 



71 




FREDERIC UK I'KVSTER FOSTER 



PRESIDENT 1900 01 

GRADUATE of Columbia College. A.B. 1868, A.M. 
1871, LL.B. 1872. Studied law in Paris, 1869-1870. 
Has practised law in New York since 1872. Is Chairman of 
the Board of Trustees of the New ^'ork Society Library, 
and a member, governor, director or trustee of many social, 
financial and charitable organizations. 

Of Saint Nicholas he was an efficient and enthusiastic 
ofificer and under his administratiim the Society made sub- 
stantial progress. 



72, 




STUYVESANT FISH 



PRESIDENT 1902-03 

r^ RADUATE of Columljia College 1871. President of 
^-'^ tlie Illinois Central Railroad, and an ofificer in impor- 
tant railmad, insurance and financial institutions. 

Trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New 
York 1883 to 1906; Trustee New York Life Insurance and 
Trust Company; \'ice-President and Director of the National 
Park Bank; member of the Monetary Commission created by 
the Indianapolis Conference 1897. President American Rail- 
way Association 1904-1906. 

Chairman of the International Railway Congress, Wash- 
ington, 1905. ^ 




UKDK'CK *■. DK WITT 



George (§06man ©f Witt 

PRESIDENT 1904-05 

A X ARDENT lover of Saint Nicholas and a very efficient 
■' *■ President through* )nt his term of office. 

Graduate of Columbia College; A.B. 1867, A.M. 1869, 
LL.B. 1870; Major 27th Regiment, N. G. N. Y. ; Lt.-Col. 5th 
Division Staff, N. G. N .Y. ; Trustee Columbia University; 
member law firm of De Witt, Lockman & De Witt; Trustee 
Fulton Trust Co.; New York Life Insurance and Trust Co.; 
Greenwich Savings Bank; Director Chemical National Bank; 
Governor New York Hospital; \'ice-President New York 
Society Prevention of Cruelty to Children. 



77 




AUSTEX G. FOX 



Austen (§eorgf jfoir 

PRESIDENT 1906-07 

!_] AR\'ARn, A. B. 1869; LL.B. 1871 ; admitted to the Bar 
^ * iS/J. Married Alice Hoppin of Providence, R. I. He 

was special assistant District Attorney in the prosecution of 
police ofificials after the investigation by the Lexow Committee 
1S94-96. 

Nominee of the Citizens Union for District Attijrncy in 
1897; [Member of the Committee of Fifteen in 1901 ; Chair- 
man of Committee of Nine, police problems in 1905. \'ice- 
Chairman Anti-imperialistic League; Vice-President Bar 
Association of the City of New York in 1898. 

Member Public Health Defense League; President Har- 
vard Club 1904-05; President City Club in 1905; member of 
manv others. 



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WILLIAM JAY 



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PRESIDENT 1908-09 



ORX at 623 Broadway, New York City, Feljruary 12, 



BORN : 
1841 



841 

Educated at Columbia Grammar School ; Columbia College 
A.B., 1859; A.M., 1863; Columbia College Law School 
LL.B., 1867. 




" Bedford House." 

Hon.e i.l Chief Ju>rfcc Jay 

Residence Bedford House, near Katonah, Westchester 
County, New York, the home of John Jay, first Chief Jus- 
tice of the United States. 

Served in the Volunteer Army of the United States during 
the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865. Resigned with the 
rank of Captain in the line, having been brevetted Lieutenant- 
Colonel for gallant and meritorious services in the field. 

Married, June 12, 1878, Lucy Oelrichs, daughter of Henry 
Oelrichs. 

Is President of the Coaching Club, The Huguenot Society, 
Vice-President of The New York Herald Company, Senior 
Warden and Clerk of the Vestry of Trinity Church. 




CHAELES A. SCHEBMERHOEN 



Cfjarles ^usustus §»cj)rrmer!)0rn 

PRESIDENT 1910-11 

r^ HARLES A. SCHERMERHORN, who resides in this 
^-^ City, was born January i, 1839, at No. 60 Hudson 
Street, New York City, educated at private schools. 

In 1861 joined the Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. Y., and 
made the campaigns of 1862-1863 with the Regiment, later 
engaged in business in the Central West, and in 1880 married 
Louise Schermerhorn, daughter of John P. Schermerhorn, 
M.D., a former member of the Saint Nicholas Society. 

Mr. Schermerhorn is a member of the Sons of the Revolu- 
tion; The Society of the War of 1812, Post Lafayette Grand 
Army of the Republic; joined the Saint Nicholas Society 
September i860, is also a member of the Society of Colonial 
Wars, Holland Society, Church Club, is a Vestryman of 
Trinity Church and a member of numerous other Societies, 
National and Charital)le. Pie is a Trustee and Secretary of 
the House of Mercy and of the Society for the Relief of the 
Destitute Blind, and a Trustee of St. Luke's Home. Member 
Seventh Regiment Veteran Association. 

Llnknown to Mr. Schermerhorn, the Editor has added the fol- 
lowing extract from the Chronicle of the Society. 

December i, 191 1. "Loving cup presented to i\Ir. Charles A. 
Schermerhorn, the retiring President, in recognition of his long 
services as an officer of the Society." 



83 




JOHN THOMAS LOCKMAN 



f oj)n djomas iloclkman 

PRESIDENT 1912 

BORN September 26, 1834; died September 27, 1912. 
Through the death of General Lockman, the Saint 
Nicholas Society suffers the loss of a President during his 
term of office. The mere recital of the record of this honor- 
able life conveys little of the man as we knew him here, 
where his unassuming and charming personality endeared 
him to us. 

The following from the Nciv York Herald: 

Brigadier General John T. Locliman, a civil war veteran, wiio in his later 
years was a member of the law firm of De Witt, Lockman & De Witt, a com- 
panion of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, died last 
night at his home, No. 140 West Seventy-third street. He was seventy-eight 
years old. 

General Lockman was born in this city. For more than seven years he served 
in the old Volunteer Fire Department. At the outbreak of the civil war he was 
a law student, and on April 19, 1S61, he enlisted as a private and took part in 
the Martinsburg campaign under General Robert Patterson and at Ball's Bluff 
under General Stone. He was promoted to captain and took part in the occupa- 
tion of Winchester, Va., and in the campaign of Virginia. 

He was made a lieutenant colonel in the iigth New York Volunteer regiment 
and fought in the Army of the Potomac under Generals McClellan, Burnside, 
Hooker and Meade. When Colonel Peisner died at the battle of Chancellorsville 
Lieutenant Colonel Lockman commanded the regiment. He was wounded at the 
battle of Gettysburg. He was ordered to the Southwest to reinforce General 
Thomas' command and fought in the battles of Wauhatchee and Missionary Ridge 
and took part in the pursuit of General Bragg and in the relief of Knoxville. 

He later participated in the battles of Caseville, Pine Hill, Kolb's Farm, 
Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and the siege of Atlanta. He 
entered that city and was in the famous march to the sea, and afterward was at 
the siege and occupation of Savannah. There he received the command of a pro- 
visional division to guard captured cotton and army stores. Colonel Lockman 
was in the march through the Carolinas. He was brevetted Brigadier General 
of Volunteers for his services in the capture of Atlanta. 

At the end of the war he resumed his study of law. He was graduated from 
Columbia Law School in April, 1867, and in 1S72 became a member of the firm 
of De Witt, Lockman & Kip, which later became De Witt, Lockman & De Witt. 
General Lockman was a vestryman of Trinity Church, a trustee of the New York 
Protestant Episcopal Public School, a director of the Lawyers Mortgage Com- 
pany and the Mortgage Bond Company. He was a member of the New York 
Historical Society, the St. Andrew's Society, the Metropolitan, Church, and Army 
and Navy Clubs, a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American 
Museum of Natural History. At the time of his death he w.-is president of the 
St. Nicholas Society. He leaves a widow, three daughters and two sons. 



8S 




WALTKR LTSI'KXARD STYDAM 



Salter Hispcnarti g'uptiam 

PRESIDENT 1913 

ly ^ R. SUYDAM began his career in Saint Nicholas, No- 

■^"■^ vember 26, 1900, that being the date of his election. 
On December 5, 190 1, he was elected a steward to fill the 

vacancy caused by the resignation of Moses Taylor Pyne; 

Mr. Suydani's grandfather, Abraham Schermerhorn, having 

been in 1835 the first stew- 
ard of the Society. 

Again in 1903 he served 
as a steward and then 
was elected a manager for 
four years. In 1909 he 
was Fourth Vice-President, 




Third in 1910 and 1911, 
First in 1912; soon the ill- 
ness of General Lockman 
placed the active manage- 
ment upon Mr. Suydam, 
who was acting President 

Abraham ^i tii.KMhhH -hn ., ^ i • . 

until 1913, for which year 
he was elected President; he was oft'ered renomination for a 
further term 1)ut declined, stating that practically he had 
already been lie fore the members for two years. Three days 
later he was informed that he had been unanimously nomi- 
nated for the position of manager, for the term of four vears, 
which office he now holds. 



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CHARLES ISIIAM 



Cj)arlcs f 6l)am 

PRESIDENT 1914 

TV yr R. ISHAM was elected Secretary of the St. Nicholas 
^'■*- Society in 1896, and continued in that office until 
1910, when he became a Vice-President. 

He was born in New York City, was educated at Phillips' 
Academy, Andover, graduated from Harvard in the Class 
of 1876, and studied at the University of Berlin and the 
College de France. He was admitted to the Bar in the 
State of New York, was Resident Graduate in History at 
Harvard, Librarian of the New York Historical Society, and 
Private Secretary at the United States Legation in London. 
He married Mary, daughter of Robert Todd and Mary 
(Harlan) Lincoln. 



89 




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BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Kelby's History of the New York Historical Society. 

General Catalogue of Columbia University, 1754-1900. 

Saint Nicholas Society Genealogical Record, 1905. 

Saint Nicholas Society Year Book of 1913. 

Minutes of Saint Nicholas Society, Society for Prevention of 

Cruelty to Children, and of the Presbyterian Hospital. 
Wilson's Memorial History of New York. 
Keep's History of the New York Society Library. 
Clark's History of the Seventh Regiment. 
Riker's History of Harlem, Second Edition. 
History of the City of New York by Martha J. Lamb, 1877. 
History of Long Island by B. F. Thompson, 1839. 
History of the Bench and Bar of New York, 1897. 
Magazine of American History, June, i8go. 
Barrett's Old Merchants of New York City. 
Stevens' Union Defense Committee of the City of New York. 
Hamm's Famous Families of New York. 
Prominent Families of New York. 
Family Records. Newspaper Obituaries. 
Valentine's Manuals. Social Register. 
New York City Directories. Who's Who in America. 
Benson's Genealogy, Talcott, 1883. 
Beekman Genealogy. 
Hoffman Genealogy. 
Jones Family of Long Island. 
Macdonough-Hackstaff Ancestry. 
Ogden Family. 
The Van Buren Family. 
Van Deusen Genealogy. 
Verplanck Genealogy. 
Report of the Municipal Arts Commission, New York, Catalogue 

of works of art belonging to the City of New York. 
Records of the Surrogate's office, New York. 



92 




THE \^'eatl^er-^"ane that long graced the old Dutch Govern- 
ment House (Stadt Huys 1656) and later Washington 
Irving's house at Sleepy Hollow. This weather-cock was given 
to Washington Irving by INIrs. Elizabeth Mackie Way 13, 1836, 
and presented by Mr. Irving to the Saint Nicholas Society De- 
cember 5th, 1848. The gentlemen who met at the Washington 
Hotel February 14, 1835, to consider "the expediency of estab- 
lishing a society to be composed of the old residents of New 
York and their descendants," had in mind at that time the large 
settlement of New Englanders in New York, and the encroach- 
ment of these new residents on the business and social standing 
of the older citizens ; and at the banquets of the Society the push- 
ing ways of the newcomers would be enlarged upon in a jocose 
vein. The weather-cock, when placed upon the President's table 
pointing to the eastward, was a signal that the time had arrived 
for the sons of Saint Nicholas to let their voices be heard in 
honor of old New York. 



93 



Unticie 



PAGE 

Alexander, James 39 

AsHBURTON, Lord 19 

Bailev, Nathaniel P 53 

Bailev, Theodorus, M.D 3 

Barclay, Susan 7 

Bedford House 81 

Beekman, James \V 35 

Beekman, James Willlam 63 

Benson, Egbert 5, n 

Bibliography 92 

Bicelow, Frank B 5 

BoGERT, Henry L 3 

Boyd, William A 3 

Bragg, General 85 

Buchanan, President 31 

Burnside, General 85 

Chrystie, Thomas L 3 

Clearwater, Alphonso T 3 

Clinton, Governor DeWitt.. 23 

Clinton, May-qr DeWitt 9,15 

Constitution 90 

Couwenhoven, Maria 11 

Davis, Vernon M 3 

Davison, Louis Vermilye 45 

De Bost, William L 3 

Decatur 21 

Delafiei.d, John R 3 

De Lancey, Edward F 49 

Delprat, Margaret 47 

Depew, Chauncey M 67 

de Peyster, Catharine Van C. 37 

dePeyster, Frederic 37 

De Peyster, Frederic 23 

DePeyster, Frederic J 65 

DeRiemer, Hester Ann 45 

De Witt, George G 77 

DeWitt, Lockman & DeWitt 

77. 85 

DeWitt, Lockman & Kip 85 

Duffield, Rev. Howard, D.D.. 3 

Edgar, Herman LeRoy 3 

Embury, James W 13 

Fellows & Schell 61 

Field, Benjamin H 37 

Fish, Hamilton 25 

Fish, Stuyvesant 75 



PAGE 

Fleming, Brigadier-General. . 23 

Floyd, Rolfe, \LD 3 

Foster, Frederic dePeyster... 73 

Fox, Austen G 79 

Fo.\-, Austen H 3 

Gilbert, Judge Jasper W 51 

Harlan, Mary 89 

Hoffman, Governor 31 

Hoff.man, Ogden 21 

Hooker, General 85 

HoppiN, Alice 79 

Huntington, Daniel 13 

Hyde, Raymond Newton 5 

Isham, Charles 3, 89 

Jackson, General 19 

Jackson, President 21 

Jay, John 81 

Jay, William 8i 

Jones, Samuel 15 

Kei.bv. Robert Hendre 5 

King, Edward 69 

King, John A 17 

Lawrence, Abraha.vi R 51 

Lawrence, Hon. John L 51 

Lincoln, Mary 89 

Lincoln, M.\ry Harlan 89 

Lincoln, Robert Todd 89 

Littlefield & Shaw 6i 

LocK.MAN, Frederic 1 3 

Lockman, General 85, 87 

Lockman, John Thomas 85, 87 

Lorii.lard, Jacob 53 

McCi.ELLAN, General 85 

McLe\n, Ja.mes M 41, 59 

McVickar, Frances Brenton.. 43 

NLacdonough, Augustus R 43 

NLxcdonough, Com. Thomas... 43 

NLanley, James R 13 

Mason, John L 35 

Meade, General 85 

Milledoler, Abian Steele 35 

Mills, John C 59 

Miner, Eliza 51 

Miner, Dr. Willia.vi 51 



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PACK 

Montgomery, James M 3 

Morris, Augusta McEvers.... 65 

Mount, Richard E., Jr 39 

Murphy, William D 3 

Nelson, Hon. William 67 

Nicoi.L, DeLanxey 3 

Norwood, Carlisle 5, 57, 59 

Norwood, Carlisle, Jr 57 

Oelrichs, Henry 81 

Oelrichs, Lucy 81 

Ocden, James De Peyster 19 

Patterson, General Robert... 85 

Peck, Thomas B 3 

Peisner, Colonel 85 

Pyne, Moses Taylor 87 

Remsen, Robert G 47, 59 

Rhinelander, Philip 3 

RiKER, Samuel, Jr 3 

Roome, Charles 33 

Roosevelt, Fred 27 

Roosevelt, James J 27 

Rutherfurd, Helen Sar.-vh 7 

RUTHERFURD, STUYVESANT 7 

RuTSEN, Sarah 15 

Satterlee, Francis LeRoy, M.D. 3 

Schei.l, Augustus 31, 59 

Schei.l, Edward 59, 61 

Schermerhorn, Abraham .... 87 

Schermerhorn, Charles A. 3, 5, 83 

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